the british government and The british military covered over the evidence of war crimes committed by british soldiers against civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq. It shows the investigations carried out by the BBC and The Sunday Times.
Information from the two regeringsundersøgelser suggest that british soldiers were involved in the killing of children and torture of civilians. It shows the leaked information from the official investigations.
the Allegations include killings committed by a soldier from the eliteenheden SAS, prisoners, death, ill-treatment and torture, and sexual abuse of detainees. It is members of the infanterienheden the Black Watch, who must have committed the war crimes.
Military investigators have identified the alleged war crimes, says to the BBC programme ‘Panorama’, that senior officers covered cases ‘for political reasons’.
– the ministry of Defence had no intention to prosecute any soldier regardless of the rank – unless it should prove absolutely necessary, and there was no way around it, says one of the investigators to the BBC.
The uk ministry of defence says the allegations are ‘untrue’.
the Ministry says that the decisions taken by prosecutors and investigators, was ‘independent’.
the Allegations are based on two investigations of possible war crimes. They are made by the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (WHAT) and Operation Northmoor, which has a focus on Afghanistan. They were completed in 2017, without to raised appeals.
the Government decided to suspend the investigation, according to a lawyer, Phil Shiner, which had yielded over 1000 cases of WHAT with accusations of war crimes, was removed from the work.
It came to pass after accusations that he had paid the people of Iraq in order to find clients.
Amnesty International criticized the decision since investigators from the WHAT and Operation Northmoor now claim that the Shiners actions was used as a pretext to suspend the investigation, when high-ranking people were implicated.
